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Updated 19 May 2022

DE Shaw Technology Developer Interview Experiences

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I appeared for an interview in Feb 2022.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(3 Questions)

Round duration - 120 Minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

  • Q1. 

    Number Pattern Generator

    To arrange a high-security meeting, tables are set up for delegates and security personnel. There are N rows of tables. The first row has one table, the second row has two tables,...

  • Ans. 

    Generate a pattern of guest and security personnel distributions across tables for a given number of rows.

    • Iterate through each row from 1 to N

    • For each row, print the pattern based on the number of guests and security personnel at each table

    • Tables on each end of a row are reserved for security personnel

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    Minimum Sum in Matrix Problem Statement

    You are given a 2D matrix 'ARR' of size 'N x 3' with integers, where 'N' is the number of rows. Your task is to compute the smallest sum achievable by selecting one...

  • Ans. 

    Find the smallest sum achievable by selecting one element from each row of a matrix, following certain constraints.

    • Iterate through each row and find the minimum element that can be selected without violating the constraints

    • Keep track of the selected elements to avoid selecting elements directly below them in the next row

    • Sum up the selected elements to get the smallest possible sum

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. 

    Buy and Sell Stock Problem Statement

    Imagine you are Harshad Mehta's friend, and you have been given the stock prices of a particular company for the next 'N' days. You can perform up to two buy-and-sell ...

  • Ans. 

    The task is to determine the maximum profit that can be achieved by performing up to two buy-and-sell transactions on a given set of stock prices.

    • Iterate through the stock prices to find the maximum profit that can be achieved by buying and selling stocks at different points.

    • Keep track of the maximum profit after the first transaction and the maximum profit overall after the second transaction.

    • Consider edge cases where...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Face to Face 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 90 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

  • Q1. 

    Pretty JSON Formatting Problem

    You're provided with a string 'STR' that represents a JSON object. Your task is to return an array of strings representing JSON objects, formatted with proper indentation ba...

  • Ans. 

    The task is to format a JSON object string with proper indentation based on specific rules.

    • Iterate through the string character by character and keep track of the indentation level.

    • Use a stack to keep track of opening and closing braces to determine the indentation level.

    • Insert four spaces or a tab (' ') for each level of indentation.

    • Handle commas to represent new lines in the output array of strings.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    Peak Element Finder

    For a given array of integers arr, identify the peak element. A peak element is an element that is greater than its neighboring elements. Specifically, if arr[i] is the peak, then both...

  • Ans. 

    Find the peak element in an array of integers.

    • Iterate through the array and check if the current element is greater than its neighbors.

    • Handle edge cases for the first and last elements of the array.

    • Return the peak element found.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as Technology Developer in HyderabadEligibility criteriaNo criteriaDE Shaw India interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, OOPS, Algorithms, OS, DBMS, CNTime required to prepare for the interview - 6 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : before interview, practice questions with company tag on websites like leetcode and see previous experiences
Tip 2 : even if you're able to solve the question, see approaches used by other people and try to solve the question in multiple ways

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : put links of your work like competitive coding profiles, hosted projects, github, etc
Tip 2 : revise everything on your resume before interview

Final outcome of the interviewRejected

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Why are women still asked such personal questions in interview?
I recently went for an interview… and honestly, m still trying to process what just happened. Instead of being asked about my skills, experience, or how I could add value to the company… the questions took a totally unexpected turn. The interviewer started asking things like When are you getting married? Are you engaged? And m sure, if I had said I was married, the next question would’ve been How long have you been married? What does my personal life have to do with the job m applying for? This is where I felt the gender discrimination hit hard. These types of questions are so casually thrown at women during interviews but are they ever asked to men? No one asks male candidates if they’re planning a wedding or how old their kids are. So why is it okay to ask women? Can we please stop normalising this kind of behaviour in interviews? Our careers shouldn’t be judged by our relationship status. Period.
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I appeared for an interview in Aug 2016.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The questions were tricky. We were given a paragraph and after reading it, a statement was given to us and we were asked to say if it is true, false or cannot say. The structure of the statement put us into a a tough place. So practice of such kind of questions is necessary.

For data interpretation questions a good hand on basic statistical mathematics is needed. One has to be quick because of the time crunch. The questions were approachable

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: In this round my resume was scanned and I was required to speak about myself, my projects and explain certain areas of my resume. The interviewer picked up one of my basic project, surprisingly, and asked me to elaborate on it. He asked me how I can improve the project. And I had to write a code to make that change. Basically, one should have a good idea about the projects they've done/ mentioned in their resume. And know it in detail.

Few questions on data structures. Prepare well for coding type questions and data structures.

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: The interviewer asked me two puzzles. They were moderate level. And also luckily he was helpful whenever I got stuck.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: HR round was good. Basic questions like " tell me more about yourself", brief information about my past history, college life, extra curricular activities. In the end she asked me, "should we hire you?" And I lightly answered " why not!" So it was a good interview overall.

Skills: Coding Skills, Team Working Ability, Project management
College Name: Visvesvaraya National Institute Of Technology
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I appeared for an interview in Aug 2017.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Tell me something about yourself
  • Q2. Questions on data structures
  • Q3. Questions on algorithms

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: it took half-an-hour

Skills: Technical Skill, Technical Analysis, Speaking Skills
College Name: NIT Bhopal

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in May 2019. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

4 Questions

  • Q1. How MVC works for data flow?
  • Ans. 

    MVC separates data flow into three components: Model, View, and Controller.

    • Model represents data and business logic

    • View displays data to the user

    • Controller handles user input and updates the model and view accordingly

    • Data flows from the model to the view through the controller

    • Changes in the view are communicated to the controller, which updates the model and view

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What are mvc layers
  • Ans. 

    MVC stands for Model-View-Controller. It is a software design pattern that separates an application into three interconnected components.

    • Model: Represents the data and business logic of the application

    • View: Displays the data to the user and handles user input

    • Controller: Acts as an intermediary between the Model and View, handling user input and updating the Model and View accordingly

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Get and post methods
  • Q4. Servlet life cycle

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Do your homework for string data structures problems

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before May 2020. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Questions were related to your technology on which you are good, it starts with basic that identifies you worked in your technology and good knowledge over workflow and your coding standard.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Working hard and prepare yourself to achieve your goal where you are satisfy with your job. There is no shortcut, you have to face the challenges. Be prepare yourself

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Apr 2020. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. I have got questions about vsam files and about SQL queries.
  • Q2. What is my previous work and project roles and responsibilities.?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare with basics clear with your project,your work,and your roles and responsibilities and be good to make them understand what you willing to answer.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Java and oops concepts

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be good in java and oops concepts

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Worst organization , no salary will be given if you work less than 30 days, without any intimation you will be fired, no one will attend your call.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. As a Asp.net developer I advise to all to have good understanding of c#. Because it is the core concept on which basis you can trackle an Interview.

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jul 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Basics of oops Concepts of JavaScript Data structures related problems

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just make your concepts strong and back yourself

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